Is The Sergio Romo Deal Done or Not?

I don’t know, but it looks like the deal is in limbo. Apparently the Sergio Romo deal is not done yet and the 33-year old reliever is still mulling over several options. The Dodgers are still the favorite with a mystery team involved, according to Jon Heyman of Fan Rag sports. Romo is said to have not yet passed a physical reportedly, and his flexor tendon strain problems could still be a concern.

Andrew Friedman #Dodgers President just told me that Sergio Romo deal is “not done”. Of course that only means that it’s pending a physical

Originally Jon Morosi had reported that the Dodgers and Romo had agreed to a one-year deal, But Andrew Friedman himself commented that the deal was not yet finalized. However that could be the club waiting for his physical to pass.

Heyman then reported that the bidding is still happening, and that the mystery team has upped their offer. According to Heyman the Dodgers are still believed to be the club that will eventually land Romo, but the contract may take a few more days to be finished. Is the mystery team the reliever hungry Nationals? Is it the Giants?

The Dodgers are still trying to sort out their bullpen and collect some options for an eighth inning set-up man. Despite the club having solid internal options such as Grant Dayton, Adam Liberatore, and Josh Fields, the front office is still looking for additions from outside the organization. It appears that the Dodgers have probably moved on from Joe Blanton, who has yet to sign with a club. Left hander J.P. Howell signed with the Blue Jays after an impressive 3-year run with the Dodgers.

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47 thoughts on “Is The Sergio Romo Deal Done or Not?”

I don’t see Romo as a set up man over the course of a season, no matter what he does in Spring Training or in April. On the one hand I would rather just see how it plays out in August.

The bigger question is should there be a dedicated set up man. I worry about the set up men being over-used. I thought Blanton did a good job and admitted ran out of gas but it was much later than others in the past (for example compare vs how Torre and Mattingly handled Hong Chi Kuo and Paco Rodriguez, respectively). But with starters innings down league wide, especially with our corps of question marks, maybe the set up innings need to be spread out amongst Romo and Dayton, which means giving Dayton more chances with righties, which may be a bit a gamble down the stretch but I like Dayton a lot.

It’s quite possible we will again need 600 innings out of our bullpen. Our $11mm closer gets 65 of them. Better make sure there are a dozen others to divide up the remainder at sub 3.4 ERA. Romo won’t get 50.

I see it the same way too, Badger. It’s almost academic when you look at the number of innings and the need to split them up.

MJ, I would love to see our starters go deeper into games but I think the game has really moved away from having starters face a lineup a third time. This trend has really happened quickly and has a lot of ramifications, including, for example, all that talk about whether to use your “closer” earlier in games – 20 years ago that wasn’t a question because you’d just live with the starter or a subpar middle reliever and hope that your hitters can catch up to a deficit.

Badger, for a set up or middle relief man that has to go an inning, or at least a few batters, I don’t like power fly-ball types (which is what I think you mean by Hatcher and Baez’s “live arms”). I think ground ball pitchers keeps the defense sharp through the 6-8 innings, and groundball pitchers tend to be more composed with runners on base.

The power types I like for closers and one out lefty/righty specialists. Of course one could argue that Dayton is a fly all pitcher but I think he’s half/half, and I like him in all relief situations, I just hope he’s just not overworked by the time September rolls around.

It’s my opinion a 97 mph fastball qualifies as a live arm but doesn’t qualify the owner of that arm as a ML pitcher. It just means they have a ML fastball. We’ve had this conversation before. 97-98 one after another is going to get hit. For some time now both those guys mentioned have been missing a two seamer and a change up they can spot.

You are right. According to Mark Timmons, he could throw @ that velocity, I haven’t seen his BB card.
I know I was in the 90’s in HS and College, but it was straight as an arrow. 3rd base and centerfield I
went. I was the QB however

I don’t know enough about Ravin, but yes I think he throws even harder, sometimes 100. I haven’t seen him enough but maybe he’s better at keeping his composure with runners on, than Baez who is clearly not ok with runners on and makes it worse with his slow delivery. Let’s how Ravin looks in ST. Hatcher, I just don’t like, he may be just like Reddick, i.e. he just can’t do well as a Dodger.

Baseball is a lonely sport. The ball comes to you and you have to make a play before anyone can help you, and sometimes there is no one to help you – you just have to make the play. And while being low key is often looked at as a good trait, you do need outspoken leaders. That’s not Kershaw. Kershaw doesn’t like to be in the face of people. That’s why he needs a handler like AJ. Some people are just like that. Hershiser was that way too when he was a player. He may not have needed Gibson, but Gibson helped and he Orel definitely needed Lasorda.

Problem is that we fired Mattingly a year or two too late. Mattingly does not like confrontation and indirectly made Kershaw worst. If we had another coach during the Kershaw and Greinke pairing, it might have been different. Puig bailed out Mattingly in his rookie season, for the worse I might add. Mattingly was in many ways the wrong manager for a team of Kershaw, Greinke, Puig and Hanley Ramirez. In an alternate universe of mine, it probably have been better to keep Puig in AAA, fire Mattingly mid-season and have AJ Ellis as player coach the rest of the way.

Turner is good in this way and that’s why he’s valued so highly for this ball club. Let’s see how Joc and Seager play out. I think they are fire and ice, and that is good.

Yes MJ, Ravin has thrown the ball 100 mph. Not consistently though. He’s a 29 year old career minor leaguer with a 1.6 WHIP and a 5 ERA in 11 minor league seasons. Maybe he figures it out this year? I doubt it but you never know. I wait again to see if Baez and Hatcher can develop a pitch that spins down, and to see if they’ve developed ANY command. My expectations on that are low.

Had my insufferable Gnu Inglin buddy over for the game last night. I didn’t think I could stand another drop of the oozing Brady Belecraft b.s. but I got another mouthful last night. One more lesson in detachment. Lady Gaga was cool.